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Okay so I am having so seriously frustrating problems with humidity in closed chambers!! I don't understand why?!
It's a closed chamber, lights and everything inside the cage. Caulked seams and painted with exterior paint. I don't know what's happening to all the moisture so quickly! I have to spray like three times a day or soak the substrate twice a day. I've never had to do it that much in any of my other closed chambers. The only gaps in the closed chamber are a 1x1 inch whole in the side that I had to put for the lights. It has front sliding doors of plexiglass. I'm using moss and Coconut husk chips as substrate. Even the humid hides won't stay humid!!! They have nothing but moss in them, that drys out completely everyday along with the moss in rest of cage.
The temps are the normal, a small basking spot around 95 to 100. 85 cool side day, 80 cool side night. Its driving me mad, I spray and spray and spray and within 12 hours it's all dry! I'm using very low wattage lights to maintain heat, 25 watt basking lights. 75 watt on the whole time and this is for a 5 foot long, 20 inch wide cage.
I've never had any closed chamber, whether it be a covered tank, one I made myself or a plastic storage bin lose humidity so fast!
The humidity problem is in my leopard and sully cage but even in my Burmese where it's nothing but a CHE on a Thermostat with cypress mulch is drying out way quicker than normal, the hide isn't even humid for some reason
It's a closed chamber, lights and everything inside the cage. Caulked seams and painted with exterior paint. I don't know what's happening to all the moisture so quickly! I have to spray like three times a day or soak the substrate twice a day. I've never had to do it that much in any of my other closed chambers. The only gaps in the closed chamber are a 1x1 inch whole in the side that I had to put for the lights. It has front sliding doors of plexiglass. I'm using moss and Coconut husk chips as substrate. Even the humid hides won't stay humid!!! They have nothing but moss in them, that drys out completely everyday along with the moss in rest of cage.
The temps are the normal, a small basking spot around 95 to 100. 85 cool side day, 80 cool side night. Its driving me mad, I spray and spray and spray and within 12 hours it's all dry! I'm using very low wattage lights to maintain heat, 25 watt basking lights. 75 watt on the whole time and this is for a 5 foot long, 20 inch wide cage.
I've never had any closed chamber, whether it be a covered tank, one I made myself or a plastic storage bin lose humidity so fast!
The humidity problem is in my leopard and sully cage but even in my Burmese where it's nothing but a CHE on a Thermostat with cypress mulch is drying out way quicker than normal, the hide isn't even humid for some reason